Supplementary courses are courses or tests that are not part of your upper secondary education.
Supplementary courses can be completed both in Denmark or outside of Denmark.
Supplementary courses can be completed either before or after 5 July.
It is not possible for paying applicants to have supplementary courses taken into consideration if these are completed after 15 March.
Please note that it is not possible to improve your Grade Point Average (GPA) for quota 1 by supplementing.
In Denmark, supplementary courses are offered by VUC. Please note that the teaching language at VUC is Danish.
The language requirement of English B can be fulfilled by taking an English language test.
For supplementary courses outside of Denmark, we accept:
All supplementary courses must be completed with an exam and a passing grade.
Please note that it can be difficult to find a supplementary course outside of Denmark that we can accept.
If you require more specific guidance about possible options for you, or you have found any supplementary courses you wish to know if we can accept, then please contact us at ba.admission@au.dk.
We use the highest grade from the highest required subject level that a subject has been completed at unless otherwise stipulated by the Danish Agency of Higher Education and Science.
Non-Danish grades will be converted into Danish grades by the university.
Please note that not all non-Danish supplementary courses will award a grade that we can use.
We are for example not able to use grades from college and university courses nor scores from English language tests.
However, we can use grades from AP-tests and the British AS- and A-levels.
It will not affect your application in quota 1 if we cannot use a grade from a supplementary course.
However, it can affect your quota 2 GPA. You can read about the quota 2 GPA here.
You can take as many supplementary courses as you need to if they are completed before 5 July.
You must note in your application that you are taking supplementary courses. You can see how to note that you are taking a supplementary course here.
If possible, then please also upload a copy of your registration for the supplementary course or English test.
5 July is the deadline to upload your final documentation for the passed course or English language test to your application on www.optagelse.dk.
It is only possible to take 2 supplementary courses if they are completed after 5 July.
Supplementary courses completed after 5 July will be assessed as conditional admission.
If you are offered a student place, then it will be on the condition that you pass your supplementary course, and send in documentation for the passed course, no later than 5 September.
You must note in your application that you are taking supplementary courses. You can see how to note that you are taking a supplementary course here.
By 5 July you must have uploaded documentation which shows that you are registered for the supplementary course or English test, and that the course or test is completed by 5 September.
If you are taking college or university courses, you must also upload course descriptions so we can assess if they will fulfil the specific admission requirement.
Grades from supplementary courses completed after 5 July cannot be used in the calculation of your quota 2 GPA.
Deadlines
5 July: You must have uploaded a registration for the supplementary course or English language test.
5 September: You must have sent in your documentation for the completed supplementary course or English language test.
